New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-29
THE BANKRUPrS' MINISTRY.
NJ CREWS uNpopULARIrY-sIR CHARLES
dixie

| lYRoN THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUNE.
| PARIS June 10.
| The new Cabinet which NJ. Grevy has Matched
has brought about the addition Of verb to the
French language The new word is peymarlier."
or peymarlierise,' and is borrowed from The
chief personage-I can't call him the hereof
Blaches novel IN. PeymarlieE" That character
is an adyenturer who owes everything to an ex-
beauty whom he married and who derived con-
siderable part Of her worldly goods from host of
bygore lovers, and the rest from the Second
Empire to whom she sold them. 1t was because OF
this last achievement, not accomplished by Madame
Peymarlier, but by the wife Of a prominent mem-
Der of the Cabinet when Napoleon III. reigned
over France, that Queen Isabella would not 60 Oh
Sunday to the State tribune at the LOngchamps
races where she thought she might risk meeting the
lady Her Majesty would have nothing to say
against Magdalen who had loved too often. But
she unable to countenance successful
DeIIlah, albeit the siren is now gray-haired and
vis5y old enough to be the mother of her husband.
who is little over forty. 1t was in
allusion to the free love lines on which this lady
shaped her course in early life that Gambetta said
when about to bring her husband into his Grand
Ministry. that the age of prudery was past The
youngish husband is one of the few Frenchmen in
political life who take trouble. He took great
deal in turning down Gambetta's work in the
Budget Committee of which he was a member,
and was in position because he did SO to make
disclosures Oh ODportunists were his claims to Of
flee ignored. Were he too good-natured to forgive
neglect. his wife prepared to resent it and to
give documentary evidence of the jobbery she
might reveal.
One must approve heartily the line taken by
Queen Isabella. Although in general agreeing
with NJ Grevy, it is impossible not to feel that he
has fallen the Vespasiau level, and has in hatch
ing his present Cabinet degraded France. Why,
it may be asked. did be hatch the new Ministry
l think have already explained. but will now re-
peat my explanation Because he is eighty, was
afraid of having to pay his son-n-law's
Bourse differences, was afraid of Bismarck.
was angry at Bonlangers popularity and
apprehensive that it might lead to military dictat-
ure. He also feared that q radical. Government
headed by Clemenceau would change the incidence
of taxation and shift the burden from the strug-
Cling millions TO the shoulders of the wealthy.
This Cabinet might be called the BankruptS MIN
istry. -Four of its members, TO wit. ROuvier, the
Prime Minister Etienne, Barbe and Heredia, have
been promoters and managers of bubble companies.
three OF which are already wrecked. That of
Barbe-the Leverlun Iron WoTks-was six or seven
years ago wound up in bankruptcy. In France
bankruptcy is much more heinJus than in England
or the United States. Heredia, a Cuban muiatto
by birth and breeding, and Minister Of Public
Works. inflated bubble known as les assurances
Rcputticaises, which also burst Rouvier must have
got deal of money out of 1.-THE Auxiliary Com
pany of Railway Rolling Stock" which he foated
with bogus capital and issued at 800 share. 1t
is now down to 81 20 and not likely to rise again,
unless the Prime Minister. IN return for services
which he can render to the great railway compa-
MES can get them to take the stock of the despair
ing shareholders.
You have no idea how profoundly unpopular the
incubation of this Cabinet of shame has made NJ.
CREW. NJ. Spullsr is the only civilian III il who Is
not financially speaking tarrished. And even he
shares in the odium in which his colleagues are
Justly held The other day he went to preside at
some school celebration at Meun in his quality of
Minister of Public Instruction. The Deputies of
the Department begged to be excused from meet
ing him and the Mayor and population stood aloof
from hun and manifested" for General BouIanger,
who was on the same date to have opened a gym
nasium A. Meun. There is talk of the President
resigning. This would be astonishing. He has
taken root at the Elysee and enjoys drawing his
handsome salary and shooting in the forests of the
State which are specially preserved for him. How
ever he painfully alive to his present unpopular
ity and was mortified almost to death when in
formed IN the forenoon of last Sunday that II ne
went to LODgchamps to see the race for the Grand
Prize of Paris there would be certainly hostile
manifestation on the road. He and
his family therefore remained at home, and none OF
the Ministers wives welt. Madame Rouvier has
not been in Paris since her husband was made
Prime Minister She Is Notwithstanding the heat
mt ST. Jean in the Var, where she super1utends the
building of splendid house.
Sir Charles and Lady Dixie have been here and
return in July on their way to Belmont Castle In
the New Forest. Ii is part of the legacy OF Sir
Charles's distant relative Sir. Shook. and as 1t Is
near the seaside Sir Charles and Lady Dixie Will
use 1t as summer residence: l saw him when he
and his wife were at the Hotel St. James Sir
Charles is losing the cut-up air that he had when
the Crawford affair was pending and for some
time after it was over. He has still charming
and very distin gushed circle of friends here. IN
GLIDING the British Embassy. Lady Dixie writes
French like Il French lady of the eighteenth CEN
tury aud has, indeed Court Of France air OF that
period. She has brought out in that language q
work on Claude Lorraine, with engraved copies OF
some of his most celebrated landscapes. Sir
Charles is delighted at the noise his series Of able
articles III The Fortnightty Reriew has made in
Europe. They are coming out IN volume here In
French. / think-and told him so-they have
the defect of being too good-natured all round
He laughed at the impeachment and told me that
the public Of the different States with which
he dealt thought 30 toO-until each read what was
written about his own particular nation.
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